Wales should not risk involvement in a Great Britain Olympic football team for the 2012 London Games, according to their former manager Mark Hughes.

The Football Association of Wales are considering whether to join England and Northern Ireland in forming a one-off GB team for the Olympic football tournament - Scotland have already refused in case it threatens their separate identity at Fifa.

Hughes, currently manager of Premier League side Blackburn, believes Wales should follow Scotland's lead.

He said: 'They have to protect their own status and the feeling is that if they do agree to a GB team that could give people the opportunity to say there should be a unified team in the UK.

'The FAW is one of the oldest associations in the world, they want to keep their independence continues and rightly so.'